GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 34, 9 October 1915, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

[United Press Association.]

Athens, October 7

. Advices from Durazzo state that it is said (.i J J Pasha shot thirty inhabitants who were acting under instructions of Ausro-Cerman agents and endeavouring to stir up trouble. The execution has greatly impressed pro.Cerman Albanians.

King Emanuel i s visiting the Isonzo front. He left his motor car and was a witness of a light iit close quarters., on horseback, though warned of the danger from Austrian artilr lery., Suddenly a shell exploded and, .wounded the King's horse. King Emanuel calmed the emotion of his suite and directed the horse to be sent to a Blue'Cros-s man. When he was recommended to retir.e, King Emanuel quickly asked for another horse and rode forward. The troops later, shouting "Savoia," ; charged and took the, enemy's position. The spot is now called -"The King's Spur.','

Paris, October Si . ' Mr Thomas, as the nvsiUfe-of a conference rath Mr Lloyd George, has aw.ranged for joint .purchase* of raw machinery atul raw.material.which can be hsed to better purpose .in tl)e v res r pective countries, and also for the export 1 'of partly' manufactured articles which can" better be' completed in one Country-owing to specialisation, iu workshops.' . ; !l r -'■ ).h ;' London, October 7. « American Red Cross doctors from Serbia, declare that the army is in,' a splendid physical condition. The. typhus scourge has been stamped out. The Trades Union Congress, General Federation of Trade Unions, the Labor Party, are elaborating an extensive plan of campaign to secure recruits' as a last effort, to prove tile possibility of retaining the-volun-tary principle. The campaign .includes a 'conference with the local unionists in Various, parts of the country wherein the responsibility of Labor in the present, emergency, is forcibly presenteu. also a - comprehensive series, of mass meetings, in the great industrial centres. The Labor Wders are of opinion that the Government should furnish more informa 1 - tjon'to enable the country to grasp the seriousness of the .situation, Mr Perry, a Free Chinch chaplain, .writes that every man was a hero in 'the-.battle. on September 25th. One '.officer had a football upon which tfie nanies of the platoon were written. Getting on.top of a parapet be kicked off, crying "Follow up, lads." The officer was immediately shot down, but the men won the position. The Amsterdam de Con rant states that Germany is sending deaf mutes to the front in special companies commanded by .signs, Most of. the reinforcements on the West front came from the training camps, not the Eastern, theatre. - .Kieff refugees affirm that the Aus-tro-Germans at Poliesie branded many male inhabitants of military age on the right arm in order to prevent their escape. , Subscribers to the American loan,. include: Sir Ernest Cassel, one million sterling; Kuhu, Loeh, and Co., five, millions; the Schwab and Jhrpont families, , seven millions : John Rockefeller, two millions; and Otto Kuhu, one million.

At the annual conference of* the Miners' Federation of Nottingham. 31 r Smellie presided. In the opening address he opposed compulsory .service being used to cover the bringing in of industrial compulsion.

;The War Office has instructed recruting committees to take whatever steps are considered most effective to induce men required for home service to enlist. The assistance of local authorities has been'promised.

The instructions are: "You should see that no man is able to complain that he is not wanted because he has not been ' fetched. You should report men refusing to enlist in the army, where they are so much needed."

Paris reports that the Senatorial Committee inspected the army stores and were satisfied that whatever the rigors of winter may be, the army will not be short of supplies.